virtu

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The virtue of Machiavelli is a science, and it cannot be said that his virtu is always moral virtue It is well known, moreover, that the cleverest and the most learned men are not the best No, no, no!

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  1. noun A knowledge or love of or taste for fine objects of art.
  2. noun Objects of art, especially fine antique objets d'art, considered as a group.

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  • I was tempted to reach up and adjust the virtu-reality helmet, which fed this artificial world to my eyes and ears to zoom in on those distant human images. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 04 - April 1994
  • It is not the dream of some neconservatives, for whom war is the only state of being that brings out public virtu. —  The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
  • But what you overlook here is that for the past 3+ years, there have been virtu ... —  Kottu
  • He objected to country gentlemen being introduced into Watier's, on the ground "that their boots always smelt of horse-dung and bad blacking His taste in matters of virtu was one of the sources of his profusion; but it always had a reference to himself. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
  • The marble mantels were decorated with articles of virtu, and rare painting adorned the walls. —  Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
 

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  1. Italian virtù, virtue, virtu, from Latin virtūs, excellence, virtue; see virtue.

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  1. Also vertu; = Italian virtù, vertù, virtue, excellence, a love of the fine arts: see virtue.
 

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/vɪrˈtu/
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